The Iron Curtain included Czechoslovakia<span>, </span>Bulgaria<span>, </span>Hungary<span>, </span>East Germany,Romania<span>, </span>Poland<span> and </span>Albania<span>. The Iron Curtain symbolized the political separation between Soviet-controlled and nonSoviet areas in Europe, which set the stage for the Cold War</span>
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Rome continued to decline after that until AD 476 when the western Roman Empire came to an end. The eastern Roman Empire, more commonly known as the Byzantine Empire, survived until the 15th century AD. It fell when Turks took control of its capital city, Constantinople (modern day Istanbul in Turkey) in AD 1453.
Because of there natural resources like iron and coal.